• CHEER

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• provisions, etc., cibus: alimenta: epulae: cibaria: victus, etc. [SYN. in FOOD.] To give or offer anybody good cheer, apparatis epulis aliquem accipere, excipere, invitare: to load one’s table with good cheer, mensas conquisitissimis epulis exstruere. Poor cheer, victus tenuis (Cic.), asper (Plaut.), parcus (Silius). Princely cheer, victuis basilicus (Plaut.).
• State of mind, etc., hilaritas (cheerfulness): laetus animus (good cheer): to be of good cheer, bono or laeto animo esse; animo vigere: with good cheer, alacer. What cheer? quo animo es? quid tibi animi est?I am not in good cheer, non bono sum animo.
• Cheers, as shouts of joy or applause, clamor et gaudium (Tac.): clamor laetus (Verg.). To receive anybody with cheers, clamore et gaudio, or clamore laeto aliquem excipere.

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• v. TR., hilarare: exhiiarare aliquem (Cic.): relevare, recreare, confirmare aliquem: to cheer up the countenance, vultum exhiiarare: frontem explicare, diffundere vultum or faciem (Sen.): the mind, animum relaxare, discutere: resolvere animi tristitiam: tristes cogitationes discutere (Cels.): to cheer up an afflicted person, excitare, crigere, confirmare afflictum: a desponding person, excitare jacentem or abjectum et jacentem; sublevaro stratum et abjectum: a depressed spirit, animum demissum et oppressum erigere. Any thing cheers me up a little, me recreat et reficit aliquid.
• Incite, encourage, excitare aliquem: aliquem or alicujus animum excitare or erigere: aliquem hortari, cohortari, adhortari (ad aliquid): aliquem incitare, incendere, inflammare: stimulos admovere or calcaria adhibere alicui (spur him on): incitare et inflammare alicujus studium.

3. v. INTR. To cheer up, animum relaxare; diffundi (Cic.): hilarem se facere (Ter.): frontem explicare (Hor.): exporrigere (Ter.): se erigere, extollere, or suscitare; se consolari (these four all Ciceronian: of cheering up from despondency, etc). Do but chrer up a little, relaxa modo paulum animum (Cic.).